Definition

a private person, i.e. (by implication) an ignoramus (compare "idiot")

Etymology

from G2398 (ἴδιος);

Word family

• ἴδιος ídios

How the KJV renders it

• ignorant
• rude
• unlearned

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.